JamesS5

Moorooka is a great suburb. The hills are nice, and quite a few streets are tree lined. If you live on the hill side of Moorooka, there are million dollar homes with views of the city. Moorooka has good dynamic for getting around, however is a little far from major Highways. If you have friends or family in Ipswich, Moorooka offers convenient access to the 4 lane Ipswich Motorway. Both Beaudesert Rd and Ipswich Road run through Moorooka. It has both a catholic private primary and a public primary, however for close by high school education you will have to go to neighbouring suburbs such as Annerly or Yeronga. Moorooka offers great public transport options for travelling to and from the city. Most buses run express along Beaudesert Road, however most express buses make a stop in the business centre of Moorooka such as 115, however 124 & 125 stop at all bus stops along Beaudesert Road and continue to Westfield Garden City. The 116 go alongs the back streets of Moorooka and Annerly, so this service is slow and irregular. For the most efficient commute to the city I would recommend the Train. 5 stations away from Southbank and 7 stops away from Central Station, and these trains run every 15 mins from 3:45am in the morning. Due to this convenience, it opens the door to inner city secondary colleges such Brisbane State High School, St Laurence's College and Somerville House. The 100 runs along Ipswich Road to Forest Lake.
There are many parks around Moorooka Alexander Park is home for the Roosters, Tonks park is a quiet park with couple of swings and resting places. There is a newly built gym/exercise park, and a skate park with BMX facilities on Muriel avenue. There are many others quietly hiding around the hillside that I haven't needed to explore as I have so many options already around me.
Moorooka Woolworths is very nice, the shopping facility also offers a fish n chip store, Merlo Coffee, Bakery, BSW, Sushi, Nandos as well as Subway. The Woolworths use to be one of the biggest in Queensland. It has very easy undercover parking. For the best fruit and vegetable I would recommend going to the Rocklea markets. In accompany with the Woolworths shopping facility in the business centre of Moorooka there is a commonwealth bank, optometrist, Ray White Realestate , Pharmacy, a small medical practice, Pub, Moorooka Post office, News agency, Dominos, Laundry Mat, Greencross vets, and lots of persian/arabic/african specialty stores just in the heart of Moorooka. However from the heart of Mooroka there is a Pizza Hut, Hair Dressers, Marriage Ceremony planners, Dry cleaners. Moorooka is only a 15 mins or so drive to Garden City which has every shop known to man, and Aldi is at Salisbury. The PA hospital is close by, which is opposite to a medium sized shopping centre.
Moorooka is famous for the Magic Mile, basically a massive car strip where all the dealers are located. This is situated along Ipswich Road near the Moorooka Train Station. The weet-bix factory is also located hear. This leads onto the industrial side of Moorooka. Moorooka is neighbouring suburbs to Rocklea which is mostly an industrial area, so on the edges of Moorooka such as towards Muriel Avenue and Beaudesert Road and onwards, as this leads to Rocklea there are a few large warehouses. Don't let this frighten you though, the rest of Moorooka is mainly all residential. Especially with new apartment complexes replacing vacant land or rundown old houses, Moorooka has a lot of potential to thrive due to the location and closeness to the CBD of Australia's third largest city.

Overall Moorooka is a nice place to raise a family or to get your foot in the property ladder.